1. More heat from the stove Thermal power loss modern processors reach 125 watts per cm square which then generates heat.Meanwhile, heating plate electric stoves ranged between 7 and 10 watts per cm square. 2. Processor Number One Intel 4004 is the first microprocessor. This processor is thrown into the market in 1971 for 200dollar and consists of over 2300 transistors. As a comparison, I7 Processor with 45nm technology which has 731 million transistors. 3. One billion transistors per Head In 2010, the world's semiconductor industry will produce one billion transistors for each of the world's population. According to data from the Semiconductor Industry Associaton (SIA), in 2005 this figure had reached 90 million transistors per resident. 4. Self-made CPU An American, Steve Chamberlin, build a cpu with mengguunakan Logic-Module and about 1250 cable for the project "Big Mess of Wires" hers. Homemade processor with a clock of 2 MHz is at the heart of a simple computer. Needed 16 to complete. 5. Round objects with a costly downside. Because of the round in shape, a fifth area of the silicon wafer can not be used for chip production.There is no other alternative to rectangular. The disc is only 775 micrometers thick is sliced from large silicon crystals, drawn with a smelter and its shape is round. 6. Pioneer Era Silicon Jack Kilby was named as the father of processors. Engineers from the Texas Instrument company is building a first integrated circuit in 1958, teridir of an oscillator on a small band of germanium.Some pioneers in microelectronics, he later received the Nobel prize for Physics in 2000. 7. Contact to Outer Space In the movie E.T. (1983), aliens building an interplanetary communicator device. Core of the toy "Speak & Spell" which is used to communicate this is the TMC in 2081 from Texas Instruments and is the first Voice Chip Synthesier. 8. Venus: the world's fastest CPU Currently, Venus became the world tercepet processor. This processor is a prototype from Fujitsu that can complete 128 computer operations per second. The ability of this prototype approximately 2.5 much faster than the latest Intel CPUs. 9. Error Inside In 1994, pentium processor came on the market and it does not function normally. When the process of division, rounding errors (roundoff error) ranging from 5 decimal digits. As a result, Intel is spending around 475 million dollars over claims this processor. 10. Scarcity Silicon Invisible Silicon is the chemical most widely used after oxygen. Because good for bone growth, the human should consume at least 30mg daily silicon.
Imporatant Facts About Hardware
MOUSE
- The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart on 1964.
- It was named after a “mouse” because it's shaped like one, with its connecting wire resembling the tail of the said rodent.
- It can be cordless. Instead of connecting to the computer just like the plugged in models, there are kinds that uses radio waves to communicate with the machine.
KEYBOARD
- It is invented by Christopher L. Sholes in the 18th century.
- The oldest model was the “Binac Model”.
- The latest layout of modern keyboards was named as “QWERTY”, whose name came from the first five letters in the first row.
MOTHERBOARD
- Is also known as the system board, the logic board or the main board.
- It is connected to other parts of the computer using the ribbon cables or other connection devices.
- A lot of people believe that the hard drive is part of the motherboard but it is not. The former is separately installed in another area of the PC.
PRINTER
- Johannes Gutenberg was known as the father of modern printer.
- The laser printer is invented by Chester Carlson in 1938 but. No one was interested with his invention so, he agreed to sign a legal partnership with Haloid company (later known as the Xerox Corp).
The motherboard provides the connections and sockets that let other components communicate with each other. Motherboards come in different shapes and sizes — a motherboard in a laptop computer might not look like one from a desktop PC.
The Processor
The computer brain is a microprocessor called the central processing unit (CPU). The CPU is a chip containing millions of tiny transistors. It’s the CPU’s job to perform the calculations necessary to make the computer work. The transistors in the CPU manipulate the data. You can think of a CPU as the decision maker.
The computer brain is a microprocessor called the central processing unit (CPU). The CPU is a chip containing millions of tiny transistors. It’s the CPU’s job to perform the calculations necessary to make the computer work. The transistors in the CPU manipulate the data. You can think of a CPU as the decision maker.
Memory
Another critical component in computers is memory. The two most important kinds of memory are read-only memory (ROM) and random access memory (RAM). Computers can read data stored in ROM, but can’t write new data to it. With RAM, computers can read from and write to that memory. Without computer memory, every calculation on a computer would be stateless. That means there’d be no way to preserve information from one moment to the next and every process would start on a clean slate. That’s not useful if you want to create complex programs.
Another critical component in computers is memory. The two most important kinds of memory are read-only memory (ROM) and random access memory (RAM). Computers can read data stored in ROM, but can’t write new data to it. With RAM, computers can read from and write to that memory. Without computer memory, every calculation on a computer would be stateless. That means there’d be no way to preserve information from one moment to the next and every process would start on a clean slate. That’s not useful if you want to create complex programs.
Many desktop PCs have the capacity for additional RAM. The user simply has to open the computer and plug RAM chips into the appropriate sockets on the motherboard. But other computers are sealed systems, you aren’t meant to open them and make changes so you’re pretty much stuck with what you’ve got.
General Important Facts
1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
11. Dalmatians are born without spots.
12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
11. Dalmatians are born without spots.
12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
Intersting Facts about Twitter
1) At present there are nearly 100 Million Active Users
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Intersting Facts About Google
1. Google started as a research project created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford. Page and Brin were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.
2. Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled the word "googol," which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. The word was chosen to reflect the company's goal of organizing the massive amound of information that is available on the Internet.
3. The Google home page is so sparse because the founders did not know HTML and just wanted to create a quick interface
.4. At first, there was not even a "submit" button. Users had to hit the "return" key to generate a Google search.
5. Google's search technology is called PageRank (tm). It assigns an "importance" value to each page on the Web and gives it a rank. But that is not why the technnology is called PageRank. In fact, it is named after Google co-founder Larry page.
6. Google's traffic doubled when they introduced their "Did you mean..." feature. This feature was made possible by a much-improved spell checker.
7. Google users apparently never feel "lucky," since the "I feel lucky" is almost never used. However, in trials it was discovered that users saw it as a comfort button and did not want it removed.
8. The search engine that Page and Brin were collaborating on was originally called BackRub, named for its ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given Web site.
9. Brin and Page would hang out at the Stanford computer science department's loading docks in hopes of borrowing newly-arrived PCs to use in their network.
10. Google's first data center was Larry Page's dorm room.
11. When Page and Brin tried to find buyers to license their search technology, one portal CEO told them "As long as we're 80 percent as good as our competitors, that's good enough. Our users don't really care about search."
12. The first major investor, Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, wrote a check for $100,000 after seeing a quick demo on the porch of a Stanford faculty member's home in Palo Alto.
13. At first, there was no way to deposit the $100,000 check. It was made out to "Google Inc.," but there was no legal entity with that name. The check sat in Page's desk drawer for two weeks while he and Brin rushed to set up a corporation and locate other investors.
14. Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, Calif. in September 1998. The door came with a remote control, since it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation.
15. On June 7, 1999, Google announced $25 million in funding from the two leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The venture capital firms were normally fierce rivals, but they both took seats on the board of directors. Even with all the new funding, when the board met, they sat around a ping pong table.
16. Google grew so quickly that its offices quickly filled up. Employees couldn't stand up at their desks without others tucking their chairs in first.
17. When Google moved to the Googleplex, their new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., large rubber exercise balls were repurposed as highly mobile office chairs in an open, non-cubicle environment.
18. Google's first company chef, Charlie Ayers, previously cooked for the Grateful Dead.
19. USA Today named Google a "hot site" in September 1999.
20. On September 21, 1999, the beta label came off Google.com.
1. Google started as a research project created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford. Page and Brin were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.
2. Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled the word "googol," which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. The word was chosen to reflect the company's goal of organizing the massive amound of information that is available on the Internet.
3. The Google home page is so sparse because the founders did not know HTML and just wanted to create a quick interface
.4. At first, there was not even a "submit" button. Users had to hit the "return" key to generate a Google search.
5. Google's search technology is called PageRank (tm). It assigns an "importance" value to each page on the Web and gives it a rank. But that is not why the technnology is called PageRank. In fact, it is named after Google co-founder Larry page.
6. Google's traffic doubled when they introduced their "Did you mean..." feature. This feature was made possible by a much-improved spell checker.
7. Google users apparently never feel "lucky," since the "I feel lucky" is almost never used. However, in trials it was discovered that users saw it as a comfort button and did not want it removed.
8. The search engine that Page and Brin were collaborating on was originally called BackRub, named for its ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given Web site.
9. Brin and Page would hang out at the Stanford computer science department's loading docks in hopes of borrowing newly-arrived PCs to use in their network.
10. Google's first data center was Larry Page's dorm room.
11. When Page and Brin tried to find buyers to license their search technology, one portal CEO told them "As long as we're 80 percent as good as our competitors, that's good enough. Our users don't really care about search."
12. The first major investor, Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, wrote a check for $100,000 after seeing a quick demo on the porch of a Stanford faculty member's home in Palo Alto.
13. At first, there was no way to deposit the $100,000 check. It was made out to "Google Inc.," but there was no legal entity with that name. The check sat in Page's desk drawer for two weeks while he and Brin rushed to set up a corporation and locate other investors.
14. Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, Calif. in September 1998. The door came with a remote control, since it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation.
15. On June 7, 1999, Google announced $25 million in funding from the two leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The venture capital firms were normally fierce rivals, but they both took seats on the board of directors. Even with all the new funding, when the board met, they sat around a ping pong table.
16. Google grew so quickly that its offices quickly filled up. Employees couldn't stand up at their desks without others tucking their chairs in first.
17. When Google moved to the Googleplex, their new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., large rubber exercise balls were repurposed as highly mobile office chairs in an open, non-cubicle environment.
18. Google's first company chef, Charlie Ayers, previously cooked for the Grateful Dead.
19. USA Today named Google a "hot site" in September 1999.
20. On September 21, 1999, the beta label came off Google.com.
Interesting Facts About Facebook
- Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status each day, with more than 55 million status updates each day.
- More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month.
- The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
- Among children under 18, Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, behind YouTube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches.
- A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant.
- Facebook is not only beating MySpace traffic, but it is also the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
- Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace.
- In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.” Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook.
- In 2008, a 23-year-old woman named Lauren Michaels created a group titled “I Need Sex” on Facebook. Within 10 minutes, she had 35 members and soon attracted 100—50 of whom she eventually slept with. Facebook has since removed her page.
- An 18-year-old Wisconsin man posed as several different girls on Facebook to blackmail underage male teens into performing sexual favors by coaxing them to send nude photos of themselves. He could be facing up to 300 years in prison.
- Beacon, part of Facebook’s controversial advertisement system that broadcasted information about a user’s shopping activity on other sites, was the target of a class action lawsuit in 2009. The resulting settlement required Facebook to pay $9.5 million into a settlement fund.
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S., and Indonesia.
- In 2009, an EMT at the crime scene took a cell phone picture of the body of a New York woman who had been strangled and beaten and then posted it on his Facebook profile. He was later arrested on charges of official misconduct and was fired from his job.
- The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide because such sites encourage teens to build transient relationships and dehumanize community life.
- Facebook includes eating disorder groups such as “Get Thin or Die Trying,” and “Quod me nutrit me destruit” (“What nourishes me destroys me”). While such eating disorder sites were typically anonymous on the Web, their growing presence on Facebook makes them more public and accessible to more people.
- The New Oxford Dictionary announced that the 2009 Word of the Year was “unfriend,” as in “to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site” such as Facebook. However, there is some debate whether the word should be “defriend” rather than “unfriend.”
- A 39-year-old Pennsylvania father was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook.
- While stressing that correlation does not equal causation, a recent poll suggested that Facebook users have lower overall grades than non-users.
- While initially created for college students, Facebook users over the age 26 now represent 60% of the total U.S. Facebook population.
- The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month.
- Approximately 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.
- Forbes dubbed 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the creator/owner of Facebook, as the world’s youngest billionaire, worth 1.5 billion.
- Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.
- In December 2009, there were over 250 million active users on Facebook, up from 1 million active users in December 2004.
- Tim Sparapani, director of public policy at Facebook, stated that hundreds of millions of people had never stopped and thought about the consequences of sharing information online.
- Information deemed public—such as profile pictures, names, cities, and networks—are available to developers of any applications that Facebook users or their Facebook friends use on the site.
- The first person to invest in Facebook was the cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who invested $500,000 in June 2004.
- In 2005, East Asia’s richest man, Li Hu Shing, invested $120 million dollars in Facebook.
- In September 2009, Zuckerberg announced for the first time that Facebook was cash flow positive, meaning Facebook made more money that it spent.
- Lamebook.com is a regularly updated site that reposts “lame” and funny Facebook user posts.
- In Florida, the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee ruled that Florida judges and lawyers should no longer “friend” each other on Facebook.
- Facebook’s fastest growing segment in the United States is women 55 years and older.
- In May 2009, a Russian investment firm, Digital Sky Technologies, invested $200 million in Facebook in return for a 1.96% stake in the Web site.
- Twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claim Zuckerberg stole their idea after they hired him to do programming for their own site, Harvard Connect (ConnectU). The case was settled for an undisclosed sum. Others, such as fellow student, Aaron Greenspan, also claim they invented Facebook.
- Named after a Harvard student directory that included student photos and profiles, Facebook was originally called “thefacebook” and was limited to only Harvard students. In 2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.”
- When Facebook changed its privacy setting in December 2009, Zuckerberg’s previously private photos—in which he was seen shirtless, holding a teddy bear, and looking “plastered”—became public.
- Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.
- A “gaydar” software program developed at MIT can reportedly identify gay men on Facebook, private profile or not.
- In January 2009, an advertising campaign from Burger King titled “WHOPPER Sacrifice” rewarded Facebook users a free “Angry Whopper” for publicly deleting 10 friends, who would then receive a blunt message informing they were deleted for a free hamburger.
- Eleven percent of Facebook’s 100 million U.S. users are African-American, 9% are Latino, and 6% are Asian, which is a fairly accurate reflection of the U.S. general population.
- A 20-year-old IBM employee in Canada lost sick leave benefits from her insurer because her Facebook page showed “cheerful” photos while she was on paid sick leave for depression.
- Girls can be prone to anxiety and depression by talking too much to their friends on Facebook. Called “co-rumination,” frequently discussing the same problem can lead to an unhealthy obsession.
- On July 1, 2009, shortly after Michael Jackson passed away, his page became the most popular page on Facebook. Previously, the most popular person on Facebook was U.S. President Obama with just over 6 million fans.
- In Australia it is valid protocol to serve court notices to defendants on Facebook. A summons posted on Facebook is legally binding.
- A site called Usocial offered to sell Facebook friends and fans to customers. Even after receiving a Cease and Desist from Facebook, Usocial said it will not shut down the service completely.
- A Facebook post in December 2009 led to a kidney donation.
- The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation contend that Facebook’s new “recommended” privacy settings serve Facebook more than they serve the user.
- Farmville boasts more than 60 million players on Facebook. Zynga—the maker of Farmville, Mafia Wars, and other Facebook games—boasts an annual revenue of more than $200 million.
- In the United States, 54.7% of people ages 13 to 17 have a Facebook account.
- There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook.
important fact about Random access memory (RAM)
RAM is typically referred to simply as "memory" even though other types of memory may exist inside a computer.
It is a temporary storage device, it stores the data that processed on processor
Each moterboard supports only a certain range of memory types in certain combinations so always check with your motherboard manufacturer before making a purchase.
Popular RAM Manufacturers:
Kingston, PNY, ,Crucial Technology
RAM Description:
A standard "module" or "stick" of desktop memory is long, thin and resembles a short ruler. The bottom of the memory module has one or more notches to guide for proper installation and is lined with numerous, usually gold-plated connectors.
Memory is installed in memory module slots located on motherboard. These slots are easily locatable by looking for the small hinges on either side that lock the memory in place. Certain sizes of modules may need to be installed in certain slots so always check with your motherboard manufacturer before purchase or installation.
Memory modules come with various storage capabilities. Modern memory modules can be purchased in 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB sizes.
Currently RAM is measured in megabytes and gigabytes. A typical computer system will have from 256MB to 4MB installed. The general rule of thumb is that the more memory you have installed the faster the system will be.
Most modern computer systems have the capacity for more RAM to be added up to a maximum. The maximum allowed and the particular type and specification of the RAM will be found in the manual for the motherboard.
Small Facts about computer
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute,less than the normal rate of 20 blinks
myspace reports over 110 million registered users were it a country,it would be the tenth largest
just behind mexico
one of the biggest leaps in Google's search engine usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker giving birth to the 'Did you mean" feature.this instantly douvled their traffic.
the first ever video thar was uploaded on youtube is bu jawed karim (one of youtube founders) titled "Me at zoo" on April 23rd,2005.only 20 sec video
the four largest software makers in the world are 1.microsoft,adobe,sap,computer associates
interesting Facts about computer -2
- High tech equipment is often driven by a computer with a DOS prompt. (re: RoboCop)
- High tech companies don't do offsite backups of the data (re: Terminator 2)
- All media devices are readily available - ie If someone hands you a DAT tape with important data on it your PC will have a DAT drive.
- No matter what you ask a computer to do it will respond with a percentage complete bargraph - especially when searching for data it can accurately give you the time remaining until it finds that data.
- Data searching will always involve displaying all the searched data on the screen until a match is found - this is true of text and graphics such as fingerprints.
- Telephone calls can be easily redirected through places all over the world, and upon a tracea globe will be displayed complete with lines travelling between each place.
- Deleting of data always takes just a little less time than it takes the bad guys to knock down the door.
- Alltechnology is plug and play - every computer can have any piece of technology attached.
- High tech graphical interfaces are often driven by hundreds of keystrokes which do not appear anywhere on the screen.
- IP addresses automatically supply the feds with the physical address (ie log on and they know where you are!)
- Word processors never display a cursor.
- You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences. Just keep hitting the keys without stopping
- All monitors display 2 inch high letters.
- High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, have easy-to-understand graphical >interfaces.
- Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.
- Corollary: You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard.
- Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS." Viruses cause temperatures in computers, > >just like they do in humans. After a while, smoke billows out of disk >drives and monitors.
- All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.
- Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as the characters come across the screen.
- All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backward. (See #7, above)
- People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data.
- A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.
- Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.
- Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. In the movies, modems transmit data at two gigabytes per second.
- When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
- If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen. There are no ways to copy a >backup file -- and there are no undelete utilities.
- If a disk has encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.
- No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by >any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all >computer platforms.
- The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled.
- Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability.
- Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY-MP.
- Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.
- Computers never crash during key, high-intensity activities. Humans operating computers never make mistakes under stress.
- Programs are fiendishly perfect and never have bugs that slow down users.
- Any photograph can have minute details pulled out of it. You can zoom into any picture as far as you want to.
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Fun Facts About computer
1.Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
2.On one of the world's most popular shopping website eBay, there are transactions of approx. $680 per second.
3.There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.
4.Of all the pictures available over the internet, 80 percent of these pictures are of naked women.
5.'Crash Course' is another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials.
6.The E-mail is older than the World Wide Web.
7.There are about five porn pages for every 'normal' web-page.
8.Doug Engelbart, invented the first computer mouse in the year 1964 and was made up of wood!
9.One of the world's leading computer and computer peripheral manufacturer Hewlett Packard was first started in a garage at Palo Alto in the year 1939.
10.If you open up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures, which is of each member of Apple's Macintosh division of 1982.
11.Amongst the most interesting computer facts is, when the first Apple computer which was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, it was made by using parts they got for free from their employers. They were made to scrounge spare parts from work.
12.If you want to get a computer aquarium, then you must get the Macquariums which are aquariums made from old Macintosh computers.
13.It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.
14.The group of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC were called "The Dirty Dozen".
The quintessential command 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' was written by David Bradley.
Computer Facts For Kids:
15.A normal human being blinks 20 times in a minute, whereas a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute! One of the best interesting computer facts.
16.The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer.
17.Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%).
18.'Mosaic' was the first popular web browser released in the year 1993.
19.I am sure most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made its creator richer by $8m.
20.Almost all computer users must know how destructive a virus can be. But then, it would be interesting to know that a virus cannot corrupt your PC on its own. It corrupts your system only when you activate it by either downloading infected files from the Internet or by sharing these infected files.
21.Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity, it is so mild for humans that they don't even feel it.
22.The Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra chip has maximum numbers of transistors on it, approx. 222 million of them.
23.Konrad Zuse, has the credit of creating world's first computer known as the Z1 in 1936. Three years later in the year 1939, was when the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer, known as Z2 was developed.
24.'Stewardesses' is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.
2.On one of the world's most popular shopping website eBay, there are transactions of approx. $680 per second.
3.There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.
4.Of all the pictures available over the internet, 80 percent of these pictures are of naked women.
5.'Crash Course' is another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials.
6.The E-mail is older than the World Wide Web.
7.There are about five porn pages for every 'normal' web-page.
8.Doug Engelbart, invented the first computer mouse in the year 1964 and was made up of wood!
9.One of the world's leading computer and computer peripheral manufacturer Hewlett Packard was first started in a garage at Palo Alto in the year 1939.
10.If you open up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures, which is of each member of Apple's Macintosh division of 1982.
11.Amongst the most interesting computer facts is, when the first Apple computer which was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, it was made by using parts they got for free from their employers. They were made to scrounge spare parts from work.
12.If you want to get a computer aquarium, then you must get the Macquariums which are aquariums made from old Macintosh computers.
13.It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.
14.The group of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC were called "The Dirty Dozen".
The quintessential command 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' was written by David Bradley.
Computer Facts For Kids:
15.A normal human being blinks 20 times in a minute, whereas a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute! One of the best interesting computer facts.
16.The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer.
17.Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%).
18.'Mosaic' was the first popular web browser released in the year 1993.
19.I am sure most of us must have played the game Tetris. Since the time it was created in early eighties, it has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, which made its creator richer by $8m.
20.Almost all computer users must know how destructive a virus can be. But then, it would be interesting to know that a virus cannot corrupt your PC on its own. It corrupts your system only when you activate it by either downloading infected files from the Internet or by sharing these infected files.
21.Computer circuitry can be destroyed by static electricity, it is so mild for humans that they don't even feel it.
22.The Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra chip has maximum numbers of transistors on it, approx. 222 million of them.
23.Konrad Zuse, has the credit of creating world's first computer known as the Z1 in 1936. Three years later in the year 1939, was when the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer, known as Z2 was developed.
24.'Stewardesses' is the longest word which can be typed with only the left hand.
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